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Hold down shift when you press play and the transport will pick up from wherever you stopped it last. If you want to loop part of a song, enable looping in the tool bar and then drag the loop markers to where you need them.

MidiPipe is a midi routing app, I think MidiOX (and one of it's tools) does something similar on a PC.

In a side note, beware of midi feedback loops. I was working on the show rig I mentioned in my earlier post, and the "thru" switch on my MOTU Fastlane USB Midi interface, and all of a sudden I was ...

damn. now I want such a device. don't do that to me. gah.

good idea. so when's the first Ableton Live-Con? I want to actually interact with users like everyone here in person, trade tips, etc etc...

You'd need to make a new clip with an extra 3 beats of silence, with "you're" appearing at the 4th beat. So basically, you need to trigger the vocals a bar early, but it will work.

I recently accomplished what you're suggesting. While there isn't any truly easy way to do it, a workaround is possible. I recorded a midi clip with controller data, after having assigned a controller to the fader or knob you want to control in Live. Then I used MidiPipe to route the midi track's ...